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化工系友Dr. Andy Tsou 鄒海雄博士(現職ExxonMobil,化工系大學部1979年畢業)與Dr. Ben Hsiao 蕭守道教授(現職Stony Brook University化工系大學部1980年畢業)榮獲2015 ACS PMSE Cooperative Research Award in Applied Polymer Science以下是相關報導:
The
2015 Award for Cooperative Research in Polymer Science and Engineering from
American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials Science and
Engineering is given to Dr. Benjamin S. Hsiao at Stony Brook University and Dr.
Andy H. Tsou at ExxonMobil Chemical Company. This award was initiated in 1992,
endowed by a generous gift from the Eastman Kodak Company.
The
2015 award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions in polymer
science and engineering by gaining new insights into the structure, property
and processing relationships of polyolefins. Their sustained collaborative
research activities over the past 15 years have exemplified an ideal bridging
teamwork between university (Stony Brook), industry (ExxonMobil) and national
laboratory (Brookhaven National Laboratory) and have brought basic and applied
research together.
The
major accomplishments of their collaborative research activities are in two
areas: (1) development of frontier synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques for
polymer research, and (2) applications of these techniques to assist the
development and commercialization of new materials. Their synchrotron work has
laid the foundation for the development of several important in-situ
techniques; i.e rheo/X-ray and tensile-deformation/X-ray, which have become
particularly useful for cutting-edge structure-property research, such as
flow-induced phase transitions and hierarchical structural changes in polymer
melts, block copolymers, nanocomposites, complex fluids, structured gels and
biological systems. The X27C beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source
in Brookhaven National Laboratory, being the first synchrotron facility in the
United States dedicated to polymer research, has served more than 1000
researchers from over 100 research institutes since its inception in 1998. At
least 40 user groups have used these in-situ techniques to investigate a
wide range of polymer problems at the X27C beamline, leading to hundreds of
scientific publications. Hsiao and Tsou have brought basic and applied research
together by successfully utilizing synchrotron X-ray scattering to guide the
development and commercialization of new polyolefin materials (e.g. Vistamaxx™
thermoplastic elastomers, Linxar™ polypropylene adhesives, Exxpro™ nanocomposites,
and Exact™ plastomers).
Dr.
Hsiao received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan
University, a Ph.D. in Polymer Science at the University of Connecticut, and
his post-doctorate training in Polymer Science & Engineering from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He then spent 8 years in R&D at
DuPont Company at the Experimental Station before joining the Chemistry
Department of Stony Brook University. He has also served as Chair of the
Chemistry Department and Vice President for Research at Stony Brook University.
Dr.
Tsou also received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan
University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. He spent
10 years at Eastman Kodak prior to joining ExxonMobil Chemical Company in
Baytown, Texas. He has also served as Section Head of the Structure and
Performance of Organic Materials Section at the Corporate Strategic Research
Labs of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company in Clinton, New Jersey.
An
award symposium to honor the 2015 winners will be held at the national ACS
meeting in Denver on Monday, March 23 (Starting at 8:30 AM). The award will be
presented at the joint Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering
and Division of Polymer Chemistry joint awards reception in Denver.
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